wakeful

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I mind," Corp went on, "how when you was little you couldna see a bairn without rocking your arms in a waeful kind o' a way, and we could never thole the meaning o't.

From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Much I rejoiced that waeful day; I sang, my voice the woods returning, But lang ere night the spear was flown, That slew my love, and left me mourning.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

My mind groped back on the events of the whole waeful winter.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Much I rejoyc'd that waeful waeful day; I sang, my voice the woods returning: But lang ere night the spear was flown, That slew my luve, and left me mourning.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

But dinna ba so waeful about it," the old woman continued, kindly, "for that's no nane like you.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)